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Re: Slack AI

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having worked at Salesforce, I assume it's gonna be in-house stuff from the Einstein team.

Einstein Team? : 0 I hate the trend of people's name getting associated with companies they have no connection with. Tesla is bad enough but are you saying the ml department of salesforce is called Einstein? Hilarious.

Ever wondered why ships have names...?

Re: Slack AI

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Slack, and messaging apps in general are the absolute last place I want AI functionality. I don’t want to think I’m chatting with someone when I’m actually with their AI PA.

I found it quite useful for summarizing the last X hours of chat messages.

Re: Slack AI

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post #6

Slack, and messaging apps in general are the absolute last place I want AI functionality. I don’t want to think I’m chatting with someone when I’m actually with their AI PA.

I found it quite useful for summarizing the last X hours of chat messages.

Provided you're willing to live with a ~20% chance it accidentally gives you a subtly misleading answer.

There should instead just be better tools for turning ephemeral chats into searchable evergreen content - tickets, documentation, reports, Q&As, etc.

That, of course, wouldn't get investors who probably don't even use the thing chomping at the bit. Everyone's gotta have an "AI story".

Re: Slack AI

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post #6

Slack, and messaging apps in general are the absolute last place I want AI functionality. I don’t want to think I’m chatting with someone when I’m actually with their AI PA.

It feels very similar to a few years ago, where everybody and their mom thought they needed a blockchain. However, AI seems a lot more promising to me than the crypto industry ever did.

Re: Slack AI

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First create a product that deluges you with a crap ton of useless work spam, make it impossible to search or organize information (was it a 1:1 chat? Group chat? Room? Thread?), add tons of useless distractions like emoji reactions, THEN offer an AI to search through it.

Masterpiece

Re: Slack AI

#17

First create a product that deluges you with a crap ton of useless work spam, make it impossible to search or organize information (was it a 1:1 chat? Group chat? Room? Thread?), add tons of useless distractions like emoji reactions, THEN offer an AI to search through it. Masterpiece

The natural step after enshittification is enAIfication.

Re: Slack AI

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No mention about whether they use their own in-house LLM or whether they use a 3rd party like OpenAI, does anyone know more about this? Edit: from the linked Privacy Statement: > Contracted service providers may also deliver artificial intelligence and generative artificial intelligence capabilities to analyze data, determine trends, make predictions and create AI-generated responses So it looks like they may use a 3…

I am pretty sure that if some of those companies using Slack is operating in Germany (or in some places that has GDPR) it might be a compliance issue due to the fact that this data can be transferred/processed over sees.

Interesting to see how it will play out.

Re: Slack AI

#19

First create a product that deluges you with a crap ton of useless work spam, make it impossible to search or organize information (was it a 1:1 chat? Group chat? Room? Thread?), add tons of useless distractions like emoji reactions, THEN offer an AI to search through it. Masterpiece

Their search isn't bad imo. I actually use it pretty frequently for things I barely remember, and it's pretty solid.

Re: Slack AI

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No mention about whether they use their own in-house LLM or whether they use a 3rd party like OpenAI, does anyone know more about this? Edit: from the linked Privacy Statement: > Contracted service providers may also deliver artificial intelligence and generative artificial intelligence capabilities to analyze data, determine trends, make predictions and create AI-generated responses So it looks like they may use a 3…

I am pretty sure that if some of those companies using Slack is operating in Germany (or in some places that has GDPR) it might be a compliance issue due to the fact that this data can be transferred/processed over sees. Interesting to see how it will play out.

OpenAI can be GDPR compliant.
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